Towel Day 2005

[DrWho42 13]

I stumbled upon this celebration whilst researching towels on Wikipedia.org...

 

..Even though I carry a towel everywhere to signify my fandom to Hitchhikerism everyday, I think fans should participate in this event.

Holiday occurs 25 May 2005.

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Edited May 19, 2005 by DrWho42

[LordOfTheBorg 1]

i know i'm gonna wear my towel to school!

[DrWho42 13]

:P Sorry about the link on the banner directing you to see the banner again...

I fixed it now. :)

[BakulaBabe 2]

Thanks for the heads-up on Towel Day! I'll add it to my Yahoo homepage calendar. :P

[Matt 0]

Okay well i have to ask why you were researching towels Doc?

[DrWho42 13]

Okay well i have to ask why you were researching towels Doc?

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I wanted to see what various online encyclopaedias and the like had to say on the subject of towels.

“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” has a few things to say on the subject of towels....

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_A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

 

_More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might have accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

 

_Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

[Itchygomba69 0]

For a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, every day is Terrible Towel day

[DrWho42 13]

Be sure to tell others about this remarkable day concerning the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. :lol:

Edited May 24, 2005 by DrWho42

[Spockstellaiter 0]

Wow, that is too funny!

[Stephen of Borg 2]

oh man, tomorrow's the day!!!

[BakulaBabe 2]

Thanks for posting the html code! :lol:

[DrWho42 13]

Thanks for posting the html code!  :P 

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You're velcome. :lol:

[DrWho42 13]

Here are a good number of pictures taken of people celebrating Towel Day across this globe... B) :(

Towel Day 2005

Towel Day 2005: Europe

Towel Day 2005: Worldwide

[G'Pol 0]

My son had waited all month for towel day,

and before school he almost forgot went out the front door

but came right back for his towel